Frances McDormand has found herself two new roles over at Focus Features. The first finds her playing the title character in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, an adaptation of the Winifred Watson period comic novel that will shoot in London in April with Bharat Nalluri directing. McDormand will play a governess in the 1800s who gets a taste of glamour when she goes to work in the home of a nightclub songstress. One of Pettigrew’s chores is to sort out the entertainer’s unrespectable affairs.
After that she will move to Burn After Reading opposite George Clooney, a dark comedy about the CIA that will be directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen.
McDormand’s last film was Friends with Money in 2006.
